Thank you to the neighbors and community members who came out for our workdays in November! After successfully planting willows, alders, buckeye, oaks, and bunch grasses, we are looking forward to seeing the growth at the site. We will be hosting future maintenance, weeding, and clean-up workdays in the Spring and Summer of 2021 as public health conditions allow.

Over the past twenty years about 2000 feet of Codornices Creek has been restored to enhance fish habitat and address past flood damages to University Village, University of California Berkeley student housing, led by the City of Albany. The project contains a regional trail and interpretive signage. CUSP is adding to this effort by partnering with the City of Berkeley to restore an upstream reach located between San Pablo Avenue and Kains Avenue on the border of Albany and Berkeley. The project has been made possible with funding from the California Department of Water Resources Urban Streams Restoration Program of Water Resources and the Schwemm Family Foundation. This 400-foot reach of creek located adjacent to low income housing has been ditched and degraded by failing concrete walls. The project will transform a one third acre weed strewn vacant lot into a neighborhood park and restore the creek channel, floodplain and riparian corridor. Fish habitat structures will be added for the Codornices Creek steelhead. Construction was completed in winter of 2020, along with a community planting day. Community planting and restoration projects will continue into 2021. Interested in volunteering on this creek restoration project? Get in touch.